UCWC Priority Legislation, Elections & Endorsements, Education and Outreach
Information Resources:
- Find out about Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org
- New England Abortion Care Guide: https://reproequitynow.org/abortioncareguide
- Anti-abortion Center list/Crisis Pregnancy: https://reproequitynow.org/aac-guidebook
- What was it like in the ‘bad old days’ before Roe? https://reproequitynow.org/badolddaysposse
- National Women’s Law Center: https://nwlc.org
- ACLU: https://aclu.org
- Abortion-Federal & State Abortion Laws, Facts and Policies: https://guttmacher.org
- Legislators: Votes, Positions and Ratings: Vote Smart: Legislators
- All State Voter Registration and Polling Place Locator: Vote Smart
- Planned Parenthood: Talking about Abortion
- League of Women Voters Falmouth: https://my.lwv.org/massachusetts/falmouth
Things you can do to get out the Vote: TALK TO YOUR NETWORK!!!!
Postcards:
If you’d like to write postcards to swing states to encourage potential voters to register and in the last weeks to Get Out The Vote, contact Nan Logan at loganwoho@comcast.net for an email every month to participate and share with friends to spread the effort. She will provide postcards (in multiples of 25), with names, addresses and a script, and deliver them to your door! All you have to do is to address, write a message, stamp, and send!!
Tuesdays at 10 AM: Write Postcards at Cape Cod Bagel
You’re invited to join a weekly post card writing party sponsored by the Falmouth Democratic Town Committee on Tuesdays from 10-11 AM on the outside deck at Cape Cod Bagel, 419 Palmer Avenue (inside if it rains or is too hot). The first party is Tuesday, July 2. The group will use cards from Field Team Six with scripts addressed to voters in swing states.
Writers are asked to supply their own stamps and to please purchase a coffee or bagel from our gracious host.
All welcome! Email: FalmouthDems@gmail.com to let them know you are coming. Bring friends!
Travel to help in other states: If you seek a soles-on-the-swing-state-soil experience, among its other outreach activities, the MA-based Swing Blue Alliance helps arrange for volunteers to go to battleground states to register, persuade, and turn out Democratic voters. States are chosen based on the closeness and criticality of the race, the proximity to New England, and Swing Blue’s partnerships in that state
https://swingbluealliance.org/
Social Media! Facebook: Upper Cape Women’s Coalition and Instagrams we follow.
UCWC Priority Legislation:
THIS IS THE FINAL PUSH…..LET’S KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!
Our 4 Priority Bills have made it to the “final round” in the 2023-24 legislative session. Now is the time to contact your legislators and those on the committees working on the bills to let them know we want these bills passed IN THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION!
FULL SPECTRUM PREGNANCY CARE: H.1137/S. 646: Legislation requires health insurance plans to cover all pregnancy care, including prenatal care, abortion, childbirth and postpartum, without any cost sharing. In Senate Way & Means Committee.
HEALTHY YOUTH ACT: H.544/S.268: Would require school districts that provide sex education to ensure it’s comprehensive, age appropriate, LGBT inclusive and emphasizes consent. In House Ways and Means Committee.
IM BILL-AN ACT TO INCREASE ACCESS TO DISPOSABLE MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS: H. 534/S.2491. Would provide free menstrual products in shelters, prisons, schools at no cost. In House Ways and Means Committee.
OMNIBUS GUN BILL: H. 4135/S.2584
Senate passed it own bill -SAFER Act The bills are now in a conference committee. Members of the conference committee are: House:
Rep. Day, Gonzalez and McKenna: Senate: Sen. Creem, Lovely and Tarr.
To find out who your legislators are, who is on the House and Senate Ways and Means Committee and how to contact them, go to:https://malegislature.gov/StateHouse/Contact